Aaerda
is an ancient world. A world that should have advanced, technologically,
beyond what is equivalent to our own Earth's Middle Ages. But it has
not. Technological advances are frowned upon at the least ... in some
parts of Aaerda, usage of anything more advanced than the wheel would
mean death in the hands of the Church. Use of magic, too, would be met
with violence from Church zealots.

And the Eldari - Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and Ogre - they used to walk
freely upon the lands they had ceded to the race of Man.

Now they merely exist in the realm of myth and legend; few, if any, of
the race of Man had ever set eyes on an Eldari.

Aaerda has not always been like this. There was a time, many aeons past,
when there was healthy competition between Machine and Magic. It was a
time when the gods watched from the heavens. A time that ended when the
Outsiders came....

Aaerda is the
setting of the book, or series of books, to be entitled Aaerdan
Chronicles, that I one day hope to have the discipline to write. Until
then, what I can do is slowly come up with details about this world
(which pretty much exists only in my head).